Get to know some of IDA's Fiscally-sponsored projects that are available to stream from the comfort of your home, on widely available platforms! We hope you'll continue to support bold, brave and informative storytelling by exploring these titles on Amazon Prime. You can also donate to our current roster of fundraising projects at documentary.org/sponsored-projects. Behind the Bullet (Heidi Yewman) Behind the Bullet explores a side of gun violence that’s rarely talked about- the impact a shooting has on the shooter. The shooters tell the story of how the pull of a trigger changed them
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Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. To get to the bottom of the current mental health crisis in the US, psychiatrist/doc-maker Kenneth Paul Rosenberg chronicles the personal, poignant stories of those suffering from serious mental illness, including his own family, to shine a light on this epidemic and offer possible solutions. Bedlam, an IDA Fiscal Sponsorship Program project, premieres April 13 on Independent Lens and streams through April. As healthcare workers around the world weather the frontlines of this
Matt Holzman, a longtime mainstay at NPR’s flagship Southern California radio station KCRW, passed away on April 12 after a bout with stage-4 metastatic cancer. But beyond his prowess as a radio producer—he was the first producer of a KCRW show and he helped make such programs as The Business and Press Play the singular listening experiences they are—and his unflagging energy during pledge drives, he was a passionate advocate for the documentary form. His monthly Matt's Movies screenings—mostly docs—at the Writers Guild Theatre were celebrations. Food trucks would line up on Doheny, the craft
By Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar Editor’s Note: José María "Chato" Galante passed away on March 29, 2020, in Madrid, Spain, due to coronavirus, following treatment for lung cancer. Chato was a lifelong activist fighting for justice for victims of Spain's Franco dictatorship and was one of the protagonists in The Silence of Others , by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar. In December 2018, Chato attended the IDA Documentary Awards in Los Angeles to receive the Pare Lorentz Award with Carracedo and Bahar. Here, the filmmakers share some of their remembrances. "Look for the big guy with
As the coronavirus pandemic continues its devastating course, we at IDA continue to monitor new resources and initiatives, as well as discussions on moving the community forward and reflections on the larger implications of this crisis. And we will bring other non-COVID-19, but nonetheless Essential, Doc Reads. With a plethora of film festivals now pivoting to an online iteration during the pandemic, Variety's Kaleen Aftab checks in with filmmakers about their take on a digital premiere. The traditional model of exhibiting at film festivals has established mechanisms for film rights and
Get to know some of IDA's Fiscally-sponsored projects that are available to stream from the comfort of your home, on widely available platforms! We hope you'll continue to support bold, brave and informative storytelling by exploring these titles on Hulu. You can also donate to our current roster of fundraising projects at documentary.org/sponsored-projects. Best of Enemies (Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon) Best of Enemies is a documentary feature about the legendary 1968 TV debates between two great public intellectuals, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley and how TV changed the way we talk
It may sound hyperbolic, but there has never been a worse time in the history of the world to be launching an independent documentary into the marketplace. With film festivals shuttering, postponing or moving online, and distribution pipelines in limbo, the standard pathways for films to build buzz, garner audiences, and make a distribution deal have been short-circuited by the COVID-19 pandemic. By their nature, nonfiction filmmakers are accustomed to adversity; they're nimble and patient, always ready for unexpected events and sticking through projects over time. But the current
Since its founding in 2003, the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, better known as CPH:DOX, has avidly embraced expanding definitions of the nonfiction form—and in the process has redefined the doc film festival itself. So it makes strange cosmic sense that, faced with global pandemic shutdowns as opening night on March 18 approached, the groundbreaking CPH:DOX chose not to cancel or postpone, but to instead lead the way to a brand new future festival world, one in which calls to social-distance and self-isolate are re-envisioned as opportunities to reach out and touch an even
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. We lost Bill Withers last week. But fortunately, Damani Baker and Alex Vlack had the good sense to document the wit and wisdom of the legendary soul artist behind such gems as "Lean on Me," "Use Me," "Ain't No Sunshine" and many more. Still Bill streams on Amazon Prime. Mailchimp and SXSW have teamed up to stream 75 shorts that would have premiered at the 2020 edition. Among the offerings: All of the docs, including Carol Nguyen's No Crying at the Dinner Table, which won the
As Tiger King reigns as the predominant safer-at-home entertainment, The New York Times' Dave Itzkoff talks to co-director Eric Goode about how he evolved from New York City nightclub owner to conservationist to documentary filmmaker. I originally set out to do a project that was a combination of Best in Show, Grizzly Man and Blackfish. The core reason for doing this was, how do you create awareness about the suffering and exploitation of exotic animals but in a way where you can engage an audience? It was equally important for me to dig into the pathology of these characters as it was to